The sales process can’t happen without documents. Many stages of the sales cycle have a corresponding document, whether it’s a presentation to share with a lead, or an invoice to send to a customer.
However, sales teams often struggle when handling documents, as they use different and disparate tools to enter data, send out sales proposals, and correspond with prospects—all while managing multiple deals.
So, besides being negotiating ninjas, sales reps also have to perfect their document admin skills.
According to PandaDoc’s customer research, reps spend on average up to 20% of their time generating sales docs and chasing down approvals.
While this is happening, sales managers often can’t see where the sales team is focusing their efforts, and can’t find the cause or a solution to these constant time drains.
So, how do you streamline your document and sales process?
How can you keep pushing a deal to the finish line after you’ve sent your sales proposal?
How can sales managers decrease the time reps spend on document admin tasks?
We want to show you exactly how.
PandaDoc asked their customers about the biggest challenges they face with their existing proposal software and contract processes. According to the PandaDoc study:
The top five must-have features of a software solution according to the respondents were:
PandaDoc has all the must-have features above, so now you can save time by managing the entire sales cycle in one tool, from pitching to collecting eSignatures.
With PandaDoc, you can now:
PandaDoc recently announced a native integration for Pipedrive, making it easy to build sales proposals and collect electronic signatures right from Pipedrive deals.
“PandaDoc’s integration with Pipedrive streamlines our process from lead to proposal and saves us a ton of time on what would otherwise just be busywork. And what we love about Pipedrive is the simplicity of moving prospects down the funnel within the app. We use both of these apps daily and couldn't recommend them more!”
Michael Cardwell, Founder and Creative Director at Digital Brew.
It’s easy to make errors when copy-pasting customer data and pricing from a CRM deal, not to mention the wasted time. PandaDoc documents contain customer and deal data built right in.
Once you send a document to your prospects, you can monitor the progress of every proposal and contract in the Deal without jumping from one tool to another.
Pipedrive customers used the PandaDoc integration to create almost 400,000 documents in 2018. Of those users, 80% were able to reduce their doc creation time and increase their close rates.
“We were struggling to engage our prospects on a higher level of conversation. We needed a way to get something in front of our prospects asap. It was a big factor to have PandaDoc as an integration that was seamless in the process.”
Amiet Chevrier, Head of Business Development at Digital Brew.
G2 Crowd ranked PandaDoc as a leader in their Winter Reports for proposal, eSignature, contract management, and document generation solutions. These reports are based on user reviews and market presence research.
Integrating Pipedrive and PandaDoc is quick and easy and does not require any technical expertise.
Go to the Pipedrive marketplace to start a PandaDoc account. Click ‘Install’ and follow the prompts. If you do not already have a PandaDoc account, start with a free 14-day trial.
Templates can save you tons of time and help create a customized proposal or a contract that already includes your deal data. Create or upload your existing documents as templates or choose one from the free PandaDoc template library.
Here are some more time-saving tips for working with documents:
Once the integration set up is complete, click “Create a document” in any Pipedrive deal to start a new document. Track and open deal-related proposals and contracts from Deal Notes and Files.
Start saving time on proposals and contracts so you can win deals faster.
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